Thieves abandon toddlers in the street half a mile after stealing mother’s car

Car-jackers abandoned two young children in the street half a mile after they
stole their mother’s car.

A mother was dragged from her driver’s seat and forced to watch as two men drove off with her children, aged just one and five, strapped in the back seatPhoto: ALAMY

By Telegraph reporters

1:59PM GMT 01 Feb 2013

The 23-year-old, who has not been named, was dragged from her driver’s seat and forced to watch as two men drove off with her children, aged just one and five, strapped in the back seat.

The siblings were driven off and then dumped around half a mile from the initial scene of the crime in Erdington, Birmingham.

Officers from West Midlands Police are now attempting to trace the family's white Vauxhall Astra, which was taken by two men at about 5.45pm on Wednesday.

A spokesman said the children were strapped into the rear seats of the Astra when their mother was dragged out of the driver's seat in Pintail Drive.

The spokesman said: "Her two children - aged five years old and 18 months old - were driven for around half a mile before being dropped off by the thieves at the roadside in Mere Road, where they were found unhurt by a passer-by and quickly reunited with their mother."